CircleCI has hired from many different talent pools, and is delighted to have smart and creative female, female-identified, and non-binary people on its staff. For this year’s International Women’s Day, I asked if any of them would like to share their thoughts about working in tech. And luckily, a few of them were willing to do so, as you can read below. (And p.s.: we’re hiring)

I spent the weekend volunteering at the annual BsidesSF security conference, which piggybacks on the larger RSA Conference this week in San Francisco. A couple of the best talks involved issues related directly to CircleCI users. Here’s a recap for those who didn’t attend.

Regardless of where your organization is in its continuous delivery journey, an integrated CI/CD solution can give you more enterprise visibility, flexibility and agility than you ever thought possible.

Tomorrow CircleCI will host a whiteboarding practice night for recent Hackbright Academy graduates. A handful of CircleCI engineers will be on hand to share whiteboarding tips to help Hackbright’s female grads as they move through the interviewing process for engineering positions.

Last month at Office Hours, our own Growth Engineer Justin Cowperthwaite gave a lively talk called “What’s in an (Event) Name?” about CircleCI’s journey to implement reliable event analytics across our apps and services. If you couldn’t make the event in person, or just want to revisit the insightful presentation, you’ll find a video of the talk in its entirety below.

The CircleCI team is headed to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco for SaaStr February 7 - 9 and we want to meet you! Members of the CircleCI team will be at booth # 72 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of the conference, and have already started taking personalized, 1:1 meetings. Schedule yours today.

Microservices are gaining popularity as a way to break enterprise software apps into small, specialized units that work together to form the whole system. But what apps are the best candidates and how do you make the leap?

Last month we welcomed Rollbar co-founder and CTO Cory Virok, StatusPage co-founder Scott Klein, CircleCI Head of Technical Services Lev Lazinskiy, and CircleCI CEO Jim Rose for a panel discussion to dissect and decode the DDoS attack on October 21st, and to talk about what it means for software teams.

CircleCI Engineer Tad Whitaker knew he would teach kids about software principles when he volunteered to participate in an international program called Hour of Code. But as he helped students at San Francisco’s Argonne Elementary School for two days this week, he had a surprise: a rise in productivity and engagement when a technical problem forced the students to pair program.

Please save the date for December Office Hours next Wednesday, December 14th, from 6 to 8 pm PT in downtown San Francisco. For our final office hours of 2016, we welcome CircleCI’s own Justin Cowperthwaite who will share his thoughts on why having a consistent event naming schema is vital to easily understanding and using your behavior analytics, especially when trying to scale an analytics team.

The CircleCI team is headed (back) to Vegas for AWS re:Invent on November 30th and December 1st and we want to meet you! Members of the CircleCI team will be at booth # 545 from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and have already started taking personalized, 1:1 meetings. Schedule yours today!

This week CircleCI is packing its bags and heading to Las Vegas for CA World. We will be camped out in the Expo Hall talking to attendees about Continuous Integration, but also presenting on the main stage and at the Accelerator Zone.

Please save the date for November Office Hours next Wednesday, November 16th, from 6 to 8 pm PT in downtown San Francisco. This month we welcome leading engineers from StatusPage, Rollbar and CircleCI for a panel discussion to dissect and decode the DDoS attack on October 21st, and discuss what this means for software teams.

Last Friday and Saturday we hosted a ClojureBridge workshop at our office in downtown San Francisco. ClojureBridge is an offshoot of RailsBridge, an organization started in 2009 by Sarah Mei and Sarah Allen with the goal of moving the demographics of people making technology to better reflect the diversity of the people who use it.

We teamed up with Sauce Labs and Code.org for a tour of Code.org’s continuous, automated cross-browser testing suite, newly integrated with CircleCI. In this webinar Brian discusses how Code.org’s small engineering team approaches testing throughout the product development cycle, including a suite of cross-browser tests using Sauce Labs that now run for every single commit an engineer pushes to their feature branch.

If you couldn’t make it, or you’d like to revisit the engaging and entertaining presentation, you can watch the video of the entire webinar on-demand now.

Last month at Office Hours, we had an engaging and compelling talk from our Engineering Manager, Travis Vachon, titled ‘Exploring The DNA Of Successful Developer Teams’. If you couldn’t make the event in person, or just want to revisit the insightful presentation, you’ll find a video of the talk in its entirety below.

Please join us this Thursday and Friday, October 6th and 7th for the 6th annual Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine. We are proud to be sponsoring coffee refreshments for this two day high profile developer conference.

Like our partner Code2040, CircleCI believes that our industry will be better when the contributions of currently underrepresented groups are sought out and included. We believe it’s critical that businesses like ours take action to bring Blacks, Latinxs, Women, and LGBTQ people into our industry and make them successful.

Please join Code.org’s Brian Jordan for a fresh tour of Code.org’s continuous, automated cross-browser testing suite, newly integrated with CircleCI. In this webinar Brian will discuss how Code.org’s small engineering team approaches testing throughout the product development cycle, including a suite of cross-browser tests using Sauce Labs that now run for every single commit an engineer pushes to their feature branch.

Join us next Thursday, September 22nd for Office Hours in San Francisco where Travis Vachon, Product Engineering Manager at CircleCI, will take us through: Exploring the DNA of Successful Developer Teams.

We hope to see you there! We love meeting the developers and software teams who use CircleCI and hearing about all the great things you’re doing. Space is limited, so reserve your spot now!

Join CircleCI + Waffle.io for a GitHub Universe Pre-Party

If you are in San Francisco for GitHub Universe please join us for a drink and light refreshments this evening from 7-11p.m. at Triple Voodoo Brewing (2245 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94107). We will have CircleCI swag and members of our team excited to meet the GitHub community in-person. All guests must be 21 years of age and have a valid ID for entry.

Day one of StackWorld 2016 Conference & Expo has wrapped, and day two is well underway. We are on the expo floor of San Francisco’s largest DevOps and scalability tech conference. If you are attending today please stop by and say hi to the team at booth 102: visit early, t-shirts and stickers are going fast!

Join CircleCI next Monday and Tuesday, June 27-28 for the StackWorld 2016 Conference & Expo, San Francisco’s largest DevOps and scalability tech conference. We are proud to be lanyard sponsors and can be found at booth 102.

StackWorld 2016 will connect the community and educate practitioners on scaling their applications and technology stacks. CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber will present, “Managing the Transition from Monolith to Microservices” on Tuesday, June 28th at 2:00 pm PT on the Workshop Stage.

Last month at Office Hours, we had an engaging and interesting talk from our own CTO, Rob Zuber, on managing the transtion from monolith to microservices. If you couldn’t make the event in person, or just want to revisit the insightful presentation, you’ll find a video of the talk in its entirety below.

In the end of May, I attended Write the Docs (WTD) 2016 in Portland, and what a conference it was. While I didn’t make it on Saturday for the hike, I think it’s awesome that a conference has a group hike together. That was a sort of foreshadowing of the type of people and conference this turned out to be.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at the Heavybit Clubhouse for our May Office Hours last night with a talk from CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber! Rob’s presentation on managing the migration from monolith to microservices was enthralling and insightful. Rob and the rest of the team enjoyed chatting with you about what you’re building and how you’re using CircleCI!

For anyone who couldn’t make it out, we’ll be sharing a link to the video from the talk soon.

Cloud, DevOps, Mobile, APIs, Big Data — all of the converging, important trends in technology today share one thing in common: developers. Developers are the vanguard. Developers are building in the cloud, building mobile applications, utilizing and building APIs, and working with big data. At the end of the day, developers are the core.

Last month, we hosted special guest speakers from Shyp during our monthly Office Hours, who talked about the inner workings of their home-grown command line interface. If you couldn’t make the event in person, or just want to revisit the great presentation, you’ll find a video of the talk in its entirety below.

Tomorrow, CircleCI founder Dr. Paul Biggar will be speaking on the panel, “Devops: integration and delivery” at Collision Conference in New Orleans. Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit. In two years, Collision has grown to over 7,500 attendees from more than 50 countries. Attendees include CEOs of both the world’s fastest growing startups and the world’s largest companies, alongside leading investors and media.

A big thanks to everyone who joined us at the Heavybit Clubhouse for our April Office Hours last week. The engineers at Shyp offered up a fascinating presentation on their command line interface, and it was such a pleasure to have them as a guest on our stage. We enjoyed meeting you and chatting with you about what you’re building and how you’re using CircleCI!

How we Automate Mobile at Shyp with CircleCI

At Shyp we have 4 mobile apps and a relatively small team. To be effective and move fast we automate everything we can: testing, building, deployments, (we even automate waiting, seriously, come to the event on Thursday to learn more about that). We have a customer facing app for Android and for iOS, an iOS app for our couriers (Compass), and an iOS app for operations team in our processing facility (Anchor).

Each of these exists in its own github repo and each repo is connected to CircleCI. In addition, we have three repos that contain various code collections shared by the iOS apps. As you can imagine, CircleCI saves us a ton of time, here’s how we do it.

At the end of March, CircleCI’s developer evangelist, Kevin Bell, gave a talk at our monthly Office Hours meetup. If you weren’t able to make the talk in person, you’ll find it in its entirety in the video below.

“It took me years of struggling with Bash before I felt like I could actually use it to save time doing any given task. I could throw together a command or two in the terminal and write very simple scripts, but it was always faster and easier for me to switch to a language like Python to do anything significant. In this short, example-filled presentation, I’m going to try to cover the elements of Bash and a couple CLI tools that made me a true believer, who reaches to Bash for most odd jobs.”

Last Friday we had the opportunity to host 40 top engineering students from across the country as part of Code2040’s Tech Trek program. We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to connect during their week-long tour of Bay Area tech companies, and were left hoping we made a good enough impression that they all apply for jobs at CircleCI once they graduate 😉.

We hosted two separate 45 minute sessions for the the students who visited us. The session I coordinated consisted of three CircleCI engineers - Ian, Edward, and myself - telling the stories of how we got to where we are professionally. I won’t speak for my colleagues, but the tale I told to those 40 students was one riddled with failure.

You don’t want a missed JavaScript opportunity in your stack. At CircleCI we are always searching for the best, most efficient way to work - from the datacenter to the cloud. But what is the cloud? What are the fundamentals of cloud architecture? Watch this on-demand webinar with Kevin Bell, Lev Lazinsky and Laura Franzese of CircleCI to learn all about Cloud Architecture 101. Hot topics include:

First-class integrations

IOT and mobile

Webhooks: the velcro of the Internet

The NSA layer of the cloud

The free ebook movement

Best of luck on your cloud adventures, and we hope you learned something new.

Big thanks to everyone who joined us at the Heavybit Clubhouse for our March Office Hours last night! Kevin’s presentation on Bash was well-received. We enjoyed chatting with you about what you’re building and how you’re using CircleCI!

Last week, CircleCI’s site reliability engineer, Bear, gave a talk at our monthly Office Hours. If you weren’t able to make the talk in person, you’ll find it in its entirety in the video below. The talk covered tools and practices that are useful for developing and deploying a modern python web application.

CircleCI spent the last two days at the DeveloperWeek 2016 Conference and Expo, held at Pier 27. DeveloperWeek 2016 is San Francisco’s largest one-week tech event series with over 60 week-long events including the DeveloperWeek 2016 Conference & Expo, the DeveloperWeek Hackathon, Official Hiring Mixer, and dozens of city-wide partner events.

CircleCI is getting ready for DeveloperWeek. DeveloperWeek 2016 is the largest developer-centric event series in San Francisco covering topics in API Design & Microservices, Full-Stack Javascript such as Angular and React, Robotics Dev, Machine Learning, Drone Development, and 200+ more talks. It kicks off this week!

According to CircleCI developer evangelist Kevin Bell, “There are a number of ways to think of continuous deployment, but my favorite at the moment is to think of continuous deployment as the natural extension of agile development and delivery practices beyond continuous integration.”

DeveloperWeek 2016 is San Francisco’s largest one-week tech event series with over 60 week-long events including the DeveloperWeek 2016 Conference & Expo, the DeveloperWeek Hackathon, Official Hiring Mixer, and dozens of city-wide partner events. The events epicenter at Pier 27, just blocks away from CircleCI’s San Francisco office, and many of our members of our team will be in attendance.

What is continuous deployment (CD), and how is it achieved? What common mistakes happen along the road to CD? How is continuous integration different from CD? These are the types of questions that keep us up at night, so we’ve partnered with Rainforest QA for our first webinar of 2016 to discuss how organizations can get to continuous deployment without compromising quality.

Office Hours feature a 20-40 minute Customer Speaker Series followed by an open Q+A, networking, and live personalized support from our CircleCI engineers. It’s a great opportunity to meet other developers and software teams who use CircleCI.

A few months ago, CircleCI Founder, Paul Biggar, joined forces with the Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly to create To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development. The show has continued to be a success, and covers a broad range of topics. Catch up with all nine previous episodes below, and follow the playlist on Soundcloud to be notified of new ones.

Earlier this month the CircleCI team made its way to Pier 70 for GitHub Universe. The event was awesome! It was great to be able to hear about all of the cool things that GitHub is working on as well as being able to chat with developers about some of the challenges they face in the CI space. We came away feeling really good about the future of GitHub and are excited to be a part of it.

Last week I traveled to Portland, Maine to attend what is, in my humble but inerrant opinion, the best developer conference in the country. Redmonk has always been way ahead of the curve in understanding how the technology industry really works, so it’s no surprise that their developer conference distills out the best parts of a technology conference and leaves the rest out.

Recently, CircleCI Founder, Paul Biggar, joined forces with the Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly to create To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development. With four episodes well underway, the show covers a wide range of topics. You can follow the playlist on Soundcloud to be notified of new episodes, and to catch up with the first four while you’re waiting.

Last week the CircleCI Team was excited to sponsor the Tech Crunch Disrupt hackathon. We met a lot of awesome developers and it was great to be able to talk with them about testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. There were a lot of teams who tried out Circle for the first time, and a handful of folks who even used Circle in their hackathon entries.

As a TCD Hackathon sponsor, CircleCI is sponsoring a custom contest. The CircleCI team will reward the team with their favorite demo with a $1000 Apple gift card. All you need to do to be eligible is create an account on CircleCI and perform at least one build. Make sure to include your team’s GitHub usernames with your project submission. You can build any project to be eligible, but extra points may be awarded for using CircleCI extensively for your hackathon project.

Our Unofficial DockerCon After Party co-hosted with Iron.io last week was a hit! The sold out event had plenty of drinks, food, t-shirts, and stickers for the many developers, customers and partners who decompressed after two DockerCon-filled days. CEOs Paul Biggar (CircleCI) and Chad Arimura (Iron.io) welcomed guests with refreshingly brief talks and encouraged discussions of Docker containers as “the future”.

We have a very iterative approach to shipping software. We try to ship a minimum viable version of features and iterate from there. This is great for responding quickly to customers, and having great support. However, it has led to us putting out some working but unintuitive UX, and much of it is still there.

CircleCI is a platform for continuous delivery. This means (among other things) we’re building serious distributed systems: dozens of servers running thousands of builds across hundreds of “container” hosts, coordinating between all the moving parts, and taking care of all the low-level details so that you have the simplest, fastest continuous integration and deployment possible.

Allen and I headed down to Startup School on Saturday, to see a few startup lumiaries with 1600 of our closest friends. The speakers were incredible, and I wanted to share some of the more memorable quotes I took down.